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By Deon SwiggsRecently published1 topic

Buying Real Estate At Auction Tips

BUYING AT AUCTION: Auctions can be a daunting time to buy a property as some Auctions you may not have any idea where it might sell or what it is worth. In New Plymouth we have adopted a policy of publishing the Auction Reserve in order for the whole process is transparent. We do about 60% of our Auctions this way. But in any case Auctions still are done in a set time frame and you need to have things sorted out so that you don’t miss out on your dream property at Auction. Here are a few things that will help you in your purchase at Auction.

Primary topic: Real Estate

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By Deon SwiggsRecently published1 topic

Ways To Deal With Emotional Attachment When Selling Assets

It is very difficult to separate the emotional attachment you have for your home from the financial investment. You have spent a lot of your life in that building and there are many memories. However, when you make the decision to sell, do your best to balance your emotions with this extremely ...

Primary topic: Real Estate

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By Deon SwiggsRecently published1 topic

Selling Your Property and the Emotional Attachment

In todays market it is both taking longer to sell your home and harder for buyers finance to be approved. This coupled with what seems prices dropping slightly every month is making for a very interesting and tough market to work and sell in. But there is always ways of making the selling process easier and quicker. The fact is that buyers who are in the market are looking for a good buy – or what they perceive to be a good buy. And usually this is associated with the price that you put on the property compared to the location and condition it’s in.

Primary topic: Real Estate

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By Deon SwiggsRecently published1 topic

For Sale By Owner Tips

When you are looking to put your house on the market there is one of two ways of going. You can do it by yourself privately or you could sell it through an agent. Both have their ups and down as life always does. But this article I am writing for the benefit of those of you who would like to put ...

Primary topic: Real Estate

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By Deon SwiggsRecently published1 topic

Things to Look Out for When Doing a Building Inspection

This guide should help both sellers and buyers to make the selling of your house to make the whole thing a lot more transparent. A good builder friend from New Zealand Home Inspections and me have put this together so that you may use it to your advantage. The information is probably the same as ...

Primary topic: Real Estate

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By Deon SwiggsRecently published1 topic

Buying a House Cash vs. Subject to Sale

This is an increasingly interesting topic that we have seen in todays market. With the average time for a house to sell increasing every month, and now standing at 50 days in New Plymouth, it is harder to sell houses. You as the buyer are taking longer to make the descision to buy, as the rush ...

Primary topic: Real Estate

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By Deon SwiggsRecently published1 topic

Financial Steprs to Buying a Home

This is a small excerpt from an interview I did with a guy named Bill James. Bill is a great financial adviser and I have been working closely with him in creating a book and a workbook that should be ready for print in a few months. I thought this was important for buyers and sellers to ...

Primary topic: Real Estate

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By Deon SwiggsRecently published1 topic

Marketing to Generation Y

This is the 21st Century. Gone are the labourage days and the days where it takes a week to get any type of response to a request. This was what the Baby Boomers and some of the Generation X people went through. This is the communication age. This is the era where we have social networking ...

Primary topic: Real Estate

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By Deon SwiggsRecently published1 topic

A Real Estate Counter Offer: How to Work it and How Not to Blow It

Whether you are selling or buying a home, the listing price is agonized over from start to finish. Realtors will advise sellers of the comparative market analyses and hopeful “For Sale Buy Owners (FSBO)” will crash open houses trying to set just the right sale price for the home. Buyers will ...

Primary topic: Real Estate

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By Deon SwiggsRecently published1 topic

The Selling Mindset

What is one of the things that hold back a sale. What is one of the things that prevent a home from getting bids or people to it. Is it the price, is it the marketing? There are so many things out there that give us advise and give us tips and they all work. Everything you do to sell your ...

Primary topic: Real Estate

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By Deon SwiggsRecently published1 topic

Generation Y Real Estate Habits

To follow on in this series so far with talking on the Baby Boomers and then Generation X, now I want to talk about generatio Y. Born between 1980 and 1999 Generation Y are now entering the workforce and stamping their personality all over it. Generation Y represents about 20 – 30% of the total ...

Primary topic: Real Estate

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By Deon SwiggsRecently published1 topic

The Three Types of People in the World

The recent and ongoing world economic crash is one which will be remembered by everyone for a very long time and will change the way things run and operate in the future forever. This change is not ‘going to happen’, it’s happening and if you think what you used to do will work tomorrow chances are it won’t. Obviously the common principles of people relations will never change but the interaction within society is changing.

Primary topic: Real Estate

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By Deon SwiggsRecently published1 topic

The Future of the Baby Boomer Market

You have no doubt heard of the “Baby Boomers”, those individuals born between 1943 and 1963. I have written about them and also about their offspring, generatio X and the ones after that named generatio Y. This is a topic that interests me with a great deal of enthusiasm. The baby boomers are ...

Primary topic: Real Estate

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By Deon SwiggsRecently published1 topic

Why Won't It Sell!

If you have your home on the market and wondering why it hasn't sold, don’t get to worried. Take a proactive and approach the three big ‘P’s’ Price Presentatio Promotio 1. Price. The market today isn't what it was last year. There are a lot of homes on the market so yours needs to shine ...

Primary topic: Real Estate

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By Deon SwiggsRecently published1 topic

Comfort Zones

Last night I couldn't sleep. I had things running through my brain, how am I going to do this? How am I going to finish that? How am I going to close this deal?... you get the idea. I was laying there just think till 3am this morning. When I woke up and was in the shower I realised that what I ...

Primary topic: Real Estate

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By Deon SwiggsRecently published1 topic

Negotiation Tips for Real Estate Buyers

As you go about shopping for a home on the Real Eestate market, perhaps the most important factors that you need to keep in mind are those associated with negotiating the best price on a home that you are interested in purchasing. By following the tips and suggestions set forth for you here, you ...

Primary topic: Real Estate

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By Deon SwiggsRecently published1 topic

Generation X Real Estate Habits

Generation X were the babies born between 1965 and about 1980, the Generation X group is much less conce ed with formality and impressing others than previous generations. Instead, group members prefer living wherever, whenever and however they want. Generation X people are now between the ages ...

Primary topic: Real Estate

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